Archive for September, 2009

On October 23, 1983, when Shia militants in Lebanon killed 241 American military personnel outside the Beirut airport with a suicide truck bomb, President Ronald Reagan vowed to continue the troops’ mission in Lebanon. Reagan had repeatedly claimed that Lyndon Johnson forced American soldiers to fight in Vietnam “with one hand tied behind their backs”… »

The billionaire former CEO of eBay, Meg Whitman, has formally announced her candidacy to run for governor of California. Her “platform” (if one can call it that) is nothing short of a scorched earth campaign against the public sector she seeks to manage. She wants to fire 40,000 state workers, slash another $15 billion out… »

Time magazine’s cover story on Glenn Beck by David Von Drehle is a clinic for journalism students who wish to learn about faux balance, false equivalencies, straw men, and omissions of important facts. Nowhere in this piece does Mr. Drehle mention the fact that sixty-two of Beck’s sponsors have yanked their ad buys to distance… »

When FOX News’ Glenn Beck called President Barack Obama a “racist” and claimed that he had “a deep-seated hatred for white people” an African-American netroots group, ColorOfChange.org, organized a successful boycott of Beck’s corporate sponsors. It wasn’t long until fifty-seven of Beck’s sponsors jumped ship lest they be associated with Beck’s own “deep-seated” white supremacy…. »

For about thirty years now the American middle class, (and by “middle class” I mean those of us who make about $45,000 to $75,000 per year), has been taking it on the chin. And for that reason half measures and lukewarm “reform” isn’t going to cut it. So let’s get real just for a moment.
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